The goals of this program are to kickstart experimentation with performance incentive programs to reward well performing orchestrators on the network and to generate empirical data that can be used by the community to design additional performance incentives for the network.
Today is the start of the 1st round of the new experimental performance incentive program funded by a Livepeer community node grant.
This program will last for the next 3 weeks until 1/4/20 and during this time well performing orchestrators will receive LPT performance rewards in addition to the LPT staking rewards that they are already earning. Orchestrator performance will be evaluated using data from the leaderboard 1.
The administrator will distribute the rewards to the best of their ability based on the rules for a round and the leaderboard data, but given that this program is experimental and the leaderboard infrastructure is fairly new, the administrator does not provide any guarantees to participants that take actions based on the rules of the program.
Any changes to the rules for the next round will be announced at least 2 days before the start of the round. The reasons for allowing reward distribution rules to change in-between rounds are:
A total score of 3 can be achieved with a ≥ 6.3 latency score which indicates real-time transcoding and a success rate of 50%
Note: 0x3e2b450c0c499d8301146367680e067cd009db93 is excluded from the summary below per program rules because it is operated by Livepeer Inc.
At the start of round 1, the following orchestrators have a total score ≥ 3 in at least one region for the past week:
Livepool.io 1 and DeFiCrypto.dev are on the brink of joining this group as well.
Below is a snapshot of the leaderboard standings at the start of round 1 for the past week:
North America (Chicago)
Orchestrators currently eligible for the regional LPT rewards:
Europe (Frankfurt)
Orchestrators currently eligible for the regional LPT rewards:
Asia (Singapore)
Orchestrators currently eligible for the regional LPT rewards: